On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Incidentally, how do you exit a man page? I normally put it thru more instead:
q
man xxx | more
man should automagically go through some form of pager without having to invoke more or less.
Of course, man has no man page! :D
man man
Sounds like man is not quite set up right on your distro ... normally I'd make some smug comment about 'apt-get install manpages', but having failed to get X running on your box (as well as David's laptop) I'll just keep quiet ;-)
Andrew.